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 elaborate [ɪ'læbərɪt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 精细的, 详尽的, 精心计划(或制作)的

vt. 详细地说明, 用心地制作, 发挥

vi. 变复杂, 作详细说明

[医] 加工


  1. What you've told me of your plan sounds most interesting; would you care to elaborate?
    你给我讲的这个计划很有意思,你能详细地谈一谈吗?
  2. The curtains had an elaborate pattern of flowers.
    窗帘上绘有精美的花卉图案。
  3. Orthodox Christian churches often have elaborate steeples.
    传统的基督教堂都有精致的尖塔。


elaborate


Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elaborated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Elaborating}.]
1. To produce with labor

They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young.

2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with
labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to
elaborate a painting or a literary work.

The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted
as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
--Arbuthnot.


Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare
to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See
{Labor}.]
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied;
executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate
discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.

Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller.

Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.
-- {E*lab"o*rate*ly}, adv. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ness}, n.

  1. It did not elaborate on the charges.
  2. Besides, Mr. Crosby asserts, SmartRoute has built an elaborate system for gathering data and doesn't need Metro's reports.
  3. He did not elaborate on what if any legal guarantees would be taken that the party was giving up its leading role.
  4. Police refused to elaborate or say whether Minnick left a note.
  5. Amoco said Mr. Allard's stock purchases "should have been avoided" and it said the company had taken "appropriate action," but didn't elaborate.
  6. He mounted the old classic ballets, in elaborate stagings, throughout the world; starred in them, and was filmed in them.
  7. His book does not elaborate on what technology was offered or whether Digital accepted the offer, The Times said.
  8. Officials of N W Ayer, Hill Holliday, and Riney all acknowledged they had been contacted by Saturn this week, but declined to elaborate.
  9. Mr. Baker said he had a difference of opinion with Arthur Brien, Pannell Kerr's managing partner, on how to run the firm, but he declined to elaborate.
  10. The most elaborate come complete with floor plans, color-coded diagrams, price lists and payment schedules.
  11. The group didn't elaborate.
  12. An official of the Bank of China's Shanghai branch confirmed the center is "under consideration," but wouldn't elaborate, the Kyodo news agency of Japan said.
  13. "There are more things they'll have to do," Conway said, but did not elaborate.
  14. Allow me to elaborate on this.
  15. In the next few days, I'll be making some very specific proposals." He did not say what the proposals would be, and White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater declined to elaborate.
  16. Neither company would elaborate on why the transaction fell through.
  17. The U.S. Embassy confirmed the report but refused to elaborate.
  18. Mr. Visher allegedly set up an elaborate scheme to funnel payments to Mr. Alegrett, a Venezuelan, through a series of friends and relatives of Mr. Alegrett's in South and Central America.
  19. The elaborate "debt-for-scholarship swap" announced Wednesday essentially converts a portion of Ecuador's $11 billion foreign debt into cash to be used for financing education for Ecuadorans.
  20. While prosecutors couldn't be reached to elaborate on the bank's size, a spokesman for the bank's lawyers said it was an apparent reference to the geographical size in the number of countries served.
  21. It didn't elaborate on the stake.
  22. But the officials wouldn't elaborate and insisted such details remain to be decided.
  23. One example of the elaborate work is a Siberian bucket made from the jawbone of a whale.
  24. An elaborate ceremony had been planned to officially welcome the Soviet president at the vast square in central Beijing.
  25. Neither Detroyer nor Mike LaTurreca, a spokesman for NYNEX Computer Services, would elaborate on their financial arrangement.
  26. A company spokeswoman declined to elaborate.
  27. Also gone after Friday's board meeting was Gil N. Schwartzberg, 49, vice chairman. Trefoil wouldn't elaborate.
  28. The spokesman said he was constrained not to elaborate, and all parties to the managment shuffle had agreed not to comment further on the changes.
  29. The letter did not elaborate on what the statements involved.
  30. A spokeswoman for the attorney general's office said she could not elaborate on details of the case, and was unsure of the penalty for illegal extradition because Mexico is in the process of revising criminal penalties.
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